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• On the post: DailyDirt: Dead Body Removal

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2012 @ 06:09pm

  Re: boredom...

  After a while, I'd guess all explosions start to look the same... unless the blasts just got bigger and bigger until you were working on nuclear bombs. But maybe I'm wrong. Good luck on those job searches -- you probably don't want to mention your penchant for explosives too early on in your interviewing process, though.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Wuzzle Means To Mix. Sculch Is Junk. Alate Means To Have Wings. A Baloo Is A Bear….

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2012 @ 12:51am

  Re: Lessons...

  The takeaways from the Finnish system don't seem that clear. Finland has a completely different set of demographics than the US, so what works in Finland might not work in other countries.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Robots Of The Sea

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2012 @ 02:13pm

  Re: Explosivejelly

  It's pretty easy to envision military applications of soft body robots that can swim around in the oceans for indefinite periods of time....

• On the post: DailyDirt: Bacon A La Mode

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2012 @ 11:48am

  Re: Would You Like Some Ham With That Pork?

  why are there different words for fruits that are fresh versus dried? eg. grapes and raisins...

• On the post: DailyDirt: Actually, It *Is* Soylent Green…

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 03:06pm

  Re: Hey Michael

  Chris, is that your way of saying you don't like our 5:00pm posts every day..?

• On the post: DailyDirt: Actually, It *Is* Soylent Green…

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 03:05pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation
  
  I guess it depends on how literal you are with that....

• On the post: DailyDirt: Actually, It *Is* Soylent Green…

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 10:55am

  Re:

  Pixelation, I'm Catholic? :P

• On the post: DailyDirt: Rockets, Man

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2012 @ 05:17pm

  Re: And then there's Planetary Resources

  Mining the moon for helium isotopes might be a bit more practical -- unless there are some nearby asteroids made up of really valuable materials?

• On the post: DailyDirt: Technology In Education

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2012 @ 01:16pm

  Re:

  Project-based lessons sound like a nice idea... reminds me of this TEDtalk:
  http://www.ted.com/talks/john_hunter_on_the_world_peace_game.html
  where 4th graders basically play a world simulation with the teacher being the dungeon master.

• On the post: DailyDirt: There's One For You, Nineteen For Me

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2012 @ 01:06pm

  Re: Not Cosmetic Surgeries??

  which careers don't benefit from being good looking?
  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203687504576655331418204842.html

• On the post: DailyDirt: Storing Up Energy For A Rainy Day…

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2012 @ 12:58pm

  Re: Hydrogen and Methane

  The electrolysis of water to get hydrogen doesn't seem like a great way to store surplus energy.... and storing hydrogen isn't exactly a fun task either.

• On the post: DailyDirt: One Of These Days, Alice… Boom! POW! Straight To Mars!

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2012 @ 02:28am

  Re: Re: NASA's former glory...

  I think NASA is actually making a wise business move by promoting competition in the satellite-launching market. There are a few private companies that have mature rocket platforms that might be adapted to NASA missions, but the prices for launching custom rockets are pretty expensive. Funding a few low-cost carriers seems like a good idea to try to keep space monopolies from forming.

• On the post: DailyDirt: National Robotics Week — Save The Bots!

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 06:54pm

  Re: Re: FRC

  Congrats, Alex... This year's FIRST game looks kinda neat:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOXsdhZZSdM
  
  Good luck on the competition (if you're still in it, not just an observer)!

• On the post: DailyDirt: No Refrigeration Necessary…?

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2012 @ 10:18pm

  Re:

  zeer URL fixed. thx for pointing out the 404.

• On the post: DailyDirt: No Refrigeration Necessary…?

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2012 @ 09:25pm

  Re: I saw this in South Africa.

  I'm sure there *is* a good reason to store chicken eggs in a fridge for longer storage.... but room temp storage isn't as detrimental as people think.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Spare Some Change?

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 05:53pm

  Re: That third one...

  Also, technically.. you have to find someone who will accept a trillion dollar coin as payment. Otherwise the Fed runs into the exact same problem it has with dollar coins -- as well as the problem of how to store such a valuable single coin.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Spare Some Change?

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 05:50pm

  Re: Life without the penny in Australia

  Hmmm. That penny-rounding process seems like there's some potential for a Superman III plot to scam lots of small transactions into serious money... :P

• On the post: DailyDirt: Getting To The Bottom Of It All

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 01:34pm

  Re: Inspiring

  Ryan,
  The (not) "being rich" part should stop you... making scientific discoveries is becoming more and more a hobbyist realm -- as long as you aren't trying to discover the bottom of the ocean, interplanetary space or fundamental particle physics... :P
  
  Try Foldit at home?

• On the post: DailyDirt: Getting To The Bottom Of It All

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2012 @ 06:43pm

  Re: science trends...

  Crowdsourced and crowdfunded science efforts are definitely some growing trends in science -- any other trends out there to look out for?

• On the post: DailyDirt: Flying Paper Airplanes

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2012 @ 07:12pm

  I suppose I should have included this project, too. Oh well.
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1328399/British-team-send-paper-plane-edge-space-flies-Earth.html

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